Dear Editor,
Minister of Education Ronald Thwaites has been performing very well to date, but now due to our schools becoming war zones and killing fields he is now talking nonsense, as indicated by comments in the article of Sunday 28th April, titled: JTA tells members to avoid violent fights between students - Teachers at risk!
Minister Thwaites is quoted as saying: "That in the light of the violent nature of some schools the ministry was moving to have deans of discipline enlisted as district constables in the constabulary". The ministry of education and its advisors and senior bureaucrats are all grasping at straws. This is not even a temporary stop-gap, it is pure nonsense and not even a poor solution.
I have previously written letters to the editors of the Daily Gleaner and the Observer decrying the sentiments of the Jamaican public and the ministry of education, wanting teachers to be miracle workers in performing all kinds of tasks not relevant to teaching and instructing.
This is now without thinking for the ministry of education to be even suggesting the preposterous idea of deans of disciplines to be enlisted as special constables to the constabulary. What next? Maybe the notion will come in teachers training, that in the course on class room management, a section should be included on restraints and self-defense.
Oh well, prospective teachers and deans of disciplines could start seeing in advertisement for their positions: candidates with military training and experience will be given higher consideration for these positions. According to the current thinking of the ministry of education, this is not far fetched at all.
Obviously, there are better strategies and techniques for effective solutions.
Dudley Morgan
Yukon,
Canada
Teachers at risk!
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Minister of Education Ronald Thwaites has been performing very well to date, but now due to our schools becoming war zones and killing fields he is now talking nonsense, as indicated by comments in the article of Sunday 28th April, titled: JTA tells members to avoid violent fights between students - Teachers at risk!
Minister Thwaites is quoted as saying: "That in the light of the violent nature of some schools the ministry was moving to have deans of discipline enlisted as district constables in the constabulary". The ministry of education and its advisors and senior bureaucrats are all grasping at straws. This is not even a temporary stop-gap, it is pure nonsense and not even a poor solution.
I have previously written letters to the editors of the Daily Gleaner and the Observer decrying the sentiments of the Jamaican public and the ministry of education, wanting teachers to be miracle workers in performing all kinds of tasks not relevant to teaching and instructing.
This is now without thinking for the ministry of education to be even suggesting the preposterous idea of deans of disciplines to be enlisted as special constables to the constabulary. What next? Maybe the notion will come in teachers training, that in the course on class room management, a section should be included on restraints and self-defense.
Oh well, prospective teachers and deans of disciplines could start seeing in advertisement for their positions: candidates with military training and experience will be given higher consideration for these positions. According to the current thinking of the ministry of education, this is not far fetched at all.
Obviously, there are better strategies and techniques for effective solutions.
Dudley Morgan
Yukon,
Canada
Teachers at risk!
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